Meeting of Returned Soldiers Conference at West Maitland
Sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League at Aberdeen, Singleton, Cessnock, Abermain, Branxton. Greta, Kurri Kurri, Weston, West…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1945
2,299 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 115
Anzac Day Close Holiday
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing) announced to-day that no race meetings nor organised sport will be allowed on Anzao…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At War with Axis
CAIRO February 26—By 214 votes to 2 the coamber of Deputies approved Egypt’s declaration of war against the Axis and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strain of War Years Londoners Showing Effect
LONDON Feb 26 —Oilp out or every 200 Londoners is a patient in a mental hospital and one out of every 274 last mental…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miss Bebe Scott Helps British and Australian War Orphans
Miss Bebe Scott, well known Radio Star, is the British Orphans' Adoption Society candidate for the N.S.W. United Charities' quest for Miss 1945…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settlement
Hunter Valley branches of the Returned Sailors Soldiers, and Airmen's League, at a meeting In West Maitland, decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rest Room No. 2 CLOSED 4½ Years’ Service for Soldiers
The committee of the Comforts Fund Rest Room No. 2. after much discussion, has decided on account of the small number of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Killed in Action
The latest army casualty list reports Private A. E. Murphy, of West Maitland killed in action. Corporal F. W. Keevert of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lebanon Declares War
BEIRUT Feb. 27.—The Lebanese Chamber unanimously voted approval of the declaration of war against the Axis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tuberculosis and War
In the United States during the first world war there was a 10 per cent, increase in deaths from tuberculosis. During the period…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Day Close Holiday No Race Meetings or Sport Allowed
The Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing) announced yesterday that no race meetings nor organised sport will be allowed on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prisoner of War Labour
The whole problem of the use of prisoner of war labour in Australia is at present being reviewed by the Federal Cabinet and early…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Opening of War Loan
A meeting of the Maitland war loan committee will be held in the Mayor’s Room, at the Town Hail, Maitland, at 7.45 o’clock…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Preserving War Stores Tropical Proofing of Engines
An unusual exhibition was recently held In England, it was an Anglo-American services exposition illustrating the preservation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mystery of the War Air Protection For Tokio
NEW YORK Feb. 28—Failure of Japanese, aeroplanes to oppose. seriously carrier raids on Tokio must be noted as the mastery of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dr. Goebbels Says War Taken Woeful Turn Australian Associated Press
LONDON March 1—Bewailing events of the war “which in the last few weeks have taken such a woeful turn for us” and that “the air terror has reached in[?] proportion and can noe hardly be horce” Dr Goe[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Loan Activities
The War Loan Committee will be supported by Cessnock Council in an effort to secure the approval of the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) for British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Loan Subscriptions
Major E. H. Ivins, war loan organiser, stated today that the advance subscriptions for the Third Victory Loan are so good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World at War
Priceless books, hand-made by Jesuit priests in a monastery near Valkenberg, Holland, and varying in age from 500 to 700 years, were secretly kept by a Dutch partisan during the whole of the Nazi occupation in defiance of orders that they must be…
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